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– Reviewed by Steve Nash – Issue 5 of the punk DIY zine Paper and Ink sets its sights on damning the man. This aesthetically-pleasing, and deceptively vast, issue presents a series of polemic, comical, heart-breaking and often startling treatises on scraping through the days in soul-sapping non-careers. In addition to the bile, though, it…

– Reviewed by Jennifer Edgecombe – Issue 3 of Boscombe Revolution is a collection of 21 poems and prose, by 17 authors, on the following themes: *work which interprets ‘revolution’ from a women’s / feminist perspective *work from Black women and other Women of Colour *work from poets and writers of all genders, sexual orientations and dis…

This month, we will showcase each of the works shortlisted in the Saboteur Awards by category. Next up: magazines! If you’d like to have your say in the awards, don’t forget to vote! Bare Fiction Magazine I’m absolutely thrilled to be nominated for the second year running for Best Magazine. You never believe you deserve the…

-Reviewed by Bethany W. Pope– Fictionvale, edited by Venessa Giunta and Jenna Barton, is a bi-monthly short-story journal that focuses on mixed-genre stories. If you enjoyed the television show Firefly, Stephen King’s Dark Tower series, or the alternate-history of Philip K Dick’s The Man in the High Castle this magazine is right up your street.…

-Reviewed by Sarah Gonnet– The first issue of literary magazine Mount Island encompasses an overall sense of poetry in its words, art and even in the editor’s note. Symbolism reigns over the entire journal and several symbols are carried across multiple pieces, so that you can follow several different symbolic threads through the collection. Inside…

– Reviewed by Steve Nash – Martin Appleby, editor and architect of the punk-tinged literary zine Paper and Ink, shares his hope in the opening notes that readers will ‘enjoy the shit out of’ issue 4. Truth be told, it’s not hard to enjoy something that bears so many marks of the passion that clearly went into its…

-Reviewed by Afric McGlinchey– An ongoing, sexy trend in the arts is collaborations, both live and on the page, or wall, or screen. Launched in 2012, Elbow Room curates art journals and live events as platforms for collaborations between artists. One of their specialty publications is a slim, hand-bound pamphlet that pairs the visual with…

-Reviewed by Alex Campbell– Initial impressions from the cover of “The Body Modern”, the first print edition of Inky Needles, suggest that my editor may have mistaken me for an art critic. The strange, retro design of the cover which seems to hark back to Victorian periodicals – possibly capitalising on the current vogue…

-Reviewed by Jennifer Wong– Contemporary avant-garde creative journal Now in its third issue, the new 80-page literary journal, Bare Fiction, is a delightful read. Boasting a contemporary, forward-looking and experimental slant, the magazine features an ambitious range of writers, including many exciting young voices published for the first time. Its poetry section reflects a bold,…

-Reviewed by Cath Barton- Bare Fiction is a literary magazine available in print and digital formats, but the magazine is only one part of what Bare Fiction represents. Its founding and managing editor, Robert Harper, is an actor and a producer and director of theatre and TV as well as a poet, and these preoccupations…